FENAZEITES warns of the dramatic situation in the sector of Portugal

Published 2021년 12월 10일

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The olive sector in Alentejo, Portugal is experiencing a breakdown due to the exhaustion of storage capacity for olive pomace, a byproduct of olive oil production, as the region is expected to produce a record 180,000 tons of olive oil and 900,000,000 Kgs of pomace. The situation is causing harm to farmers and companies, and threatening the value chain. Despite warnings from the Cooperative sector, no authorizations have been given to increase capacity or open new units. The lack of funding for the transformation and processing of bagasse, as seen in the PDR2020, and the refusal of competent bodies to develop a strategic plan for the sector have led to these structural imbalances.

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In a year in which the production of olive oil is expected to reach values in the order of 180,000 tons, which is the biggest campaign since there are records, FENAZEITES learned that the entire olive sector in Alentejo has been paralyzed, since the picking olives from the presses that transform it. Due to the boom seen in this year's production, the three large units for receiving olive pomace from the cooperative and non-cooperative mills, which process all the olives produced in the Alentejo, have their storage capacity exhausted or practically exhausted and not accept more raw material. This whole situation is causing untold damage to farmers and companies linked to the sector, and what can happen to the olive oil value chain will be terrifying, as there is nowhere to put that olive pomace, whose estimated production is expected to reach 900,000,000 Kgs. The Cooperative sector, through FENAZEITES and its associate UCASUL – União de Cooperativa Agrícolas, has been, for several ...

Source: AgroNegocios